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16 - Vegetable empire

from II - Enlightened orders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2018

By
Miles Ogborn
Edited by
Helen Anne Curry ,
Nicholas Jardine ,
James Andrew Secord  and
Emma C. Spary
Helen Anne Curry
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Nicholas Jardine
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
James Andrew Secord
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Emma C. Spary
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Worlds of Natural History , pp. 271 - 286
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Carney, J. A. and Rosomoff, R. N., In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World (Berkeley, 2009).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dettelbach, M., ‘Humboldtian science’, in Jardine, N., Secord, J. A. and Spary, E. C. (eds.), Cultures of Natural History(Cambridge, 1996), pp. 287–304.Google Scholar
Drayton, R., Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain and the ‘Improvement’ of the World (New Haven, 2000).Google Scholar
Grove, R. H., Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600–1860 (Cambridge, 1995).Google Scholar
Humboldt, A. von and Bonpland, A., Essay on the Geography of Plants (1807; Chicago, 2009).Google Scholar
Miller, D. P. and Reill, P. H. (eds.), Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany and Representations of Nature (Cambridge, 1996).Google Scholar
Ogborn, M., ‘T85:211alking plants: botany and speech in eighteenth-century Jamaica’, 82:313 History of Science, 51 (2013), pp. 251–82.Google Scholar
Schiebinger, L. and Swan, C. (eds.), Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce and Politics in the Early Modern World (Philadelphia, 2005).Google Scholar

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